Chester himes autobiography in five short
Chester himes autobiography in five short
Chester himes autobiography in five short sentences.
Chester Himes
American novelist (1909–1984)
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.[1] In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
Life
Early life
Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, on July 29, 1909, to Joseph Sandy Himes and Estelle Bomar Himes; his father was a professor of industrial trades at a black college, and his mother, prior to getting married, was a teacher at Scotia Seminary.[2] Chester Himes grew up in a middle-class home in Missouri.
When he was about 12 years old, his father took a teaching job in the Arkansas Delta at Branch Normal College (now University of Arkansas at Pine B